A blaze of colour in the dark

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Snakebark maples, winter-flowering camellias and a sacred Central American shrub that makes itself at home on our windowsills... there are many amazing plants that give us colour and interest in even the darkest months. We visit the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens* to discover an incredible range of hardy plants that look great all winter. Garden designer Juliet Sargeant gives her seasonal tips for adding interest to your garden at home and we uncover the surprising story of a perennial Christmas favourite, the poinsettia. Plus plantsman and nursery owner Claire Austin's ode to an unusual evergreen iris that flowers from December to March. *Please note that this RHS Partner Garden is open free to RHS members in January and February. See link in the show notes for more detail.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of.
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth.
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five score free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:33.3	It goes from everything like black to the bright reds of the colour stem dogwoods,
0:40.3	oranges and yellows from the willows.
0:44.3	Barry Clark is a botanist at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire.
0:50.3	He's talking about their winter garden, which boasts a welcome riot of colour in the colder months.
0:55.0	It's a really encouraging thing to see colour in the garden.
1:00.0	It makes you think, well, the year actually isn't over.
1:03.0	It's keeping on going. It's keeping on producing.
1:05.0	My garden is keep on giving me beautiful things to see.
1:08.0	And I think it's uplifting.
1:10.0	Today on gardening with the RHS, we're finding the bright shades in this darker season.
1:15.7	Later in the show, we'll hear how to add splashes of colour to our plots.
1:20.3	Plus, we take things indoors to learn more about a particular plant that shines red through Christmas,
1:26.5	but has many other uses.
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